Knit socks designed to use up leftover, stash, and scrap yarn. Updated 8/17/26
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Free Patterns
Westknits Simple Socks
Colorful top-down sock pattern knit with a ribbed cuff, stockinette leg, and garter stitch heel flap. 5 Sizes. Designed by Stephen West.
Happy Squares Socks
These checkerboard socks are perfect for using up leftover scraps of sock yarn. Knit from the cuff down with heel flap and gusset. Designed by Mone Dräger.
Melonade Socks
Shortie socks knit with bright citrus colors with a citrus slice stranded design on the toe and heel and a picot cuff. Perfect for using up sock yarn scraps. Designed by Elaina Manley.
Bricklane Flat Knit Socks
Colorful socks knit flat with a slip stitch brick pattern and seamed. Uses at least 3 colors of Medium weight yarn. Designed by Annanitato Lolo of Crazy Hands. Video tutorial included with pattern.
Sixy Helix Socks
I love the offset striped pattern of these cuff down socks that give zigzag and movement to the design of the socks. Designed for 6 colors, it's a great use for leftover sock yarn. This is a pattern for more experienced knitters. Designed by Pi Fisher.
Taffy Toes Socks
Lace socks knit cuff down in 5 colors you can knit with mini skeins or leftover yarn in gradient shades. 3 Sizes. Designed by SweetGeorgia.
Quattro Socks
These colorful socks designed to use up leftover sock yarn are knit flat on two needles with short row heel and then grafted and seamed. Sizes XXS to XXL. Great stash buster for scrap sock weight yarn. Designed by Soft Sloth Knits for Knitty.
Patchwork House Socks
Leftover yarn socks knit with mitered square patchwork top and finished with afterthought heel sock construction. Perfect for using up those sock yarn scraps. Designed by autumngeisha.
More Free Patterns
Mad Mix Socks
This pattern contains instructions for both cuff-down and toe-up versions with six different stitch textures that make these socks perfect for stash-busting and scrap yarn. Designed by Virpi Tarvo
Scrappy Socks
Stash buster socks knit toe up with stripes of different colors and textures including moss stitch, broken rib, garter stitch, and more. Great for scrap leftover Fingering yarn. Designed by Justyna Lorkowska.
Weekend Shorty Socks
Quick fun way to use up leftover sock yarn, these ankle socks come in sizes from Toddler to XL adult and feature as many as 6 contrast colors plus the main color. Cuff down heel flap socks. Fingering weight of yarn. Designed by Summer Lee.
Ruffled Feathers Socks
Fun socks for kids and adults with ruffles around cuff that are mirrored in stripes on the foot. Sizes Toddler to Adult XLarge. Fingering weight yarn. Designed by Lauren Colby.
Le Quebrada Socks
A simple stranded pattern for colorful striped socks. 2 sizes. Perfect for stash or scrap yarn. Designed by Dela Hausmann. Note that the pattern has been officially discontinued but the link to the pdf is still live at this writing.
Gander Socks
A very simple stranded sock pattern of triangles, ideal to use up leftovers. Designed by General Hogbuffer.
Party Flag Socks
These colorful top-down socks feature a geometric design inspired by banners and pennants. Cuff, afterthought heel, and toe are knit in contrasting colors. 4 sizes. Designed for 5 colors, it's perfect for leftover sock yarn. Designed by Allison Lutes.
Christmas Smorgasbord
These striped socks feature a different texture each day and are designed as an Advent project in 24 steps so you wind up with a pair of socks on Christmas Eve. Ideal for using up sock yarn scraps! Designed by Becky Greene. Pictured project by JConklin
Patterns for Purchase
Goosebumps Socks
Colorful socks knit with zigzag stripes designed to use of leftover scraps of sock yarn. 4 sizes. Designed by Soft Sloth Knits
Vappusocks
The ruched legs and colorful stripes of these socks evoke the balloons that are part of the Finnish celebration of Vappu. Designed by WoolWilla
Cookie Swap Socks
Fun scrappy socks knit with different texture and mosaic colorwork sections in different colors. Three adult sizes. Designed by Dana Rae
Summerland Sock Set
Five sock patterns using simple colorwork and striping, using as many as 10 colors each so it's perfect for stash and leftover yarn. Designed by Summerleedesignco
